Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 16, 2025 ...

Cummins' Cincinnati dealer has it, 'cause with my bad back, bum wrist, etc, there's no way I can tackle the fuel hose swap.

Silicone hose with fabric reinforcement is the long life improvement over the rubber type used in the past.  Silicone outlasts the rubber type by a large margin.
Surely the rubber hose is not really rubber, it just seems to be rubber.
Nylon does sound interesting, not sure as I have not heard of it. Surely someone has and can tell us all about it, the benefits and the negatives.

Peter, I just had a go around with my Cummins Service Manger, who reminded me of a few things, and the big point is, any line used for fuel,Diesel or gasoline, must be rated for that fuel, and yes there is Silicone  hose that is rated for diesel, and there is nylon hose, the big thing about the nylon, it is only seen in very high priced fuel systems, such as race cars. The high priced nylon is inside a metal woven sleeve, and it very high priced I am told.
He never has seen any around a Cummins engine, they at the Cummins shop use mostly, the normall rubber type with the fabric reinforcement and in some areas you can use the same plastic (?) what ever it is made out of that is used on the air brake systems.  Do not think it is called nylon, my guess it is some sort of PVC, but that is a guess, I don't know what it is called, I know where to get it, and have used it alot for lots of things like oil pressure lines etc also.
So who knows , guess it is like alot of things, and do the best you can and hope for the best, at least you will learn from it.
FWIW
Dave

Fortunately the hose feeding the engine from the fuel tank appears good and it appears to have already been replaced. This is because it has different hose clamps (screw type) instead of the crimp type on the hoses on the engine and the hose looks good.

At times, it will sound like it is about to die, but it comes back and continues to run.  I don't know what might be this cause. But it did not die until I stopped it last night. 

Do not over look the fuel filter between the body and genset.  It also shows  up acting a lot like you describe when it gets plugged up with dirt.
Dave

Morris, On the GV's air is drawn in from below and behind the generator and the radiator fan exhausts it to the rear thru a box directed to the ground. I am sure the bus types have a similar arrangement even though they are front mounted. It is important that the foam around the fan shroud be kept in place to ensure good air flow.
While you have the genny  pulled out do a close inspection of the fan belt, its a PITA to get to and is easily neglected.

On ours (99 U270, Isuzu 8KW), there is an opening in the foam on the drivers side that allows the radiator air to exhaust into the space beside the steering box.

Right on about the fuel filter, most units have an additional fuel pre-filter between the fuel tank and the generator. This filter is the one that gets over looked a lot..
I guess it is possible your unit does not have this additional filter.
Sorry for the confusion.
Dave

I have a 8.0 in my U270 99 and I had problem with the genset not starting or run for few seconds and cut off. I didn't know there was an in line filter right before the block electric fuel pump.
Mine had never been replaced.  It didn't look like a filter but part of the hose.  $5.00 item and fixed the problem.  DAn Stansel U270 99 36

Peter,

Prior to picking up our "new to us" 95 Foretravel I had MOT change oil, belts, filters, etc.  Also told them if they found anything that looked questionable to repair or replace.  They found only a few minor things. One being the top bracket on generator radiator fan guard was broken, they welded bracket back together and reinstalled, replaced leaking hose on generator. TOTAL COST=$294.00

Sure would question Cummins on that price...

Here's the update on my PT generator repair:
Picked up the coach today.  Cummins replaced the fuel hoses to/from the generator.  Standard fuel hose was used ($1.30 per foot; sounds reasonable).  Charged 13 hours to diagnose & replace the hoses @ $102 per hour.  To me that sounded a bit much.

Hello all, My generator on my 1999 U295 starts and runs then shuts off (it may run 30 min or 5 min) with low oil light, ES52 Dynagen auto start controller, oil pressure is 60psi hot, oil pressure sender is new, fuel pressure is 4.5 lbs. It will also do the same thing with the o/p sender unhooked, I have ran a new wire to the sender directly from the controller no joy. I am thinking the controller is bad. Anyone have any thoughts or experience with these?
Thanks